Open Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Dependent Travel Time (OVRPTD) is different from most variants of vehilce routing problems from the liteture in that the vehicle dosen’t return to the depot after serving the last customer and the travle time is time dependent. The travle time is presented by a continuous dynamic network time dependent function. Particle Swarm Optimization with self-adapti...

İnşaat sektörünün malzemeye olan talebi her geçen gün artmakta ve kullanım yerindeki ihtiyaçları sürekli çeşitlenmektedir. Malzemelerin yerinde dayanıklılığının fazla olması, uzun süre sağlaması ayrıca ömrünü tamamladıktan sonra çevreye zararlı atık yükü oluşturmaması önem taşımaktadır. Odun-çimento kompozit levhalar, reçine esaslı levhalarla karşılaştırıldığında, yangına karşı yüksek mukavemet...

This paper presents a direct and stochastic technique for real-time estimation of on-board stereo head’s position and orientation. Unlike existing works which rely on feature extraction either in the image domain or in 3D space, our proposed approach directly estimates the unknown parameters from the stream of stereo pairs’ brightness. The pose parameters are tracked using the particle filterin...

Planetary rovers provide a considerable challenge for artificial intelligence in that they must operate for long periods autonomously, or with relatively little intervention. To achieve this, they need to have on-board fault detection and diagnosis capabilities. Traditional model-based diagnosis techniques are not suitable for rovers due to the tight coupling between the vehicle’s performance a...

Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz (“LÄK-RLP”), the State Medical Association of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany serves as the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for clinical research at Klinikum Ludwigshafen, where Dr. Joachim Boldt’s recent research was conducted. On February 25, 2011, LÄK-RLP provided the involved journals with the results of their evaluation of the status of IRB approval for research...